Bloodtide - Melvin Burgess

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About Melvin Burgess

Bloodtide

» Melvin Burgess

Puffin
Paperback : 05 Jan 2001
12+ years

£5.99

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Set in the future as two rival gangs, the Volsons and the Connors, struggle to control London. The city is almost cut off from the rest of the country and surrounded by the Halfman Lands - a desolate area populated by creatures, Halfmen, the results of genetic experiments to create living killing machines. Val Volson dreams of uniting the two factions by giving his 14-year-old daughter, Signy, as a bride to the rival ganglord, Connor. A shocking betrayal almost wipes out the Volsons - only Signy and her twin brother, Siggy, survive. The fate of both gangs, and of London, is in their hands, but both must pay a terrible price for power.

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Customer Review: 30 July 2003

Reviewer: nicky

I think this book is excellent! Melvin has made the future London so realistic. I can't wait for the sequel!

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Critic Review:

‘Burgess doesn’t only tell rollicking good stories; he writes brilliantly too. There is a real passion here, and he spares the reader nothing . . . A bone-hard, brilliant book.’ Lyn Gardner, Guardian